Freedom can be tasted, sweet as nectar, while you are fully alive.
The Arc
You can be free right now, while you are alive. Hold the Guru's teaching close. Stay awake to the One, day and night, and let your pride go. Sing the One's praises, and you come alive. The Word tastes sweeter than anything. Cling only to stuff and show, and a fog settles in. Whole days vanish in busywork, round and round. Tune your heart to the Naam, and greed loosens its grip. Whatever you do, you do with easy balance, and life tastes sweet. Few people see this, and seeing it is a gift. Meet the One, and you are never apart again. At the centre, the Rahao: singing the One's praises keeps you alive, and the Word is the sweetest taste.
Key Vocabulary
jeevat mukat — liberated while yet alive; freedom as a way of living now.
mahaa ras — the great elixir; the sweetness of the Word.
sahj subhaa-ay — with natural, effortless poise (sahaj).
vichhurh na jaa-ee — never separated again; the end of all longing.
Themes and Cross-Connections
jivan-mukti and sahaj are two of Gurbani's central pictures of the aligned soul, free and at ease while fully in the world. once-met-never-parted answers the raag's viraha directly.
For Raag Malaar
Here the raag's longing is already resolved: the separation that Malaar aches over is healed, and the soul that has met the One is never parted from it again.
Hukumnama
Subject: Singing the One's praises keeps you alive Preview: free while alive, the sweetest nectar, a fog of busywork, an easy balance, never parted again.
Today: You can be free right now, while you are alive. Hold the Guru's teaching close. Stay awake to the One, day and night, and let your pride go. Sing the One's praises, and you come alive. The Word tastes sweeter than anything. Cling only to stuff and show, and a fog settles in. Whole days vanish in busywork, round and round. Tune your heart to the Naam, and greed loosens its grip. Whatever you do, you do with easy balance, and life tastes sweet. Few people see this, and seeing it is a gift. Meet the One, and you are never apart again.
Singing the One's praises keeps you alive, and the Word is the sweetest taste.
For today: Sing or hum one line of praise today, and notice how sweet it tastes.
Freedom can be tasted, sweet as nectar, while you are fully alive.
The Arc
You can be free right now, while you are alive. Hold the Guru's teaching close. Stay awake to the One, day and night, and let your pride go. Sing the One's praises, and you come alive. The Word tastes sweeter than anything. Cling only to stuff and show, and a fog settles in. Whole days vanish in busywork, round and round. Tune your heart to the Naam, and greed loosens its grip. Whatever you do, you do with easy balance, and life tastes sweet. Few people see this, and seeing it is a gift. Meet the One, and you are never apart again. At the centre, the Rahao: singing the One's praises keeps you alive, and the Word is the sweetest taste.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
jivan-mukti and sahaj are two of Gurbani's central pictures of the aligned soul, free and at ease while fully in the world. once-met-never-parted answers the raag's viraha directly.
For Raag Malaar
Here the raag's longing is already resolved: the separation that Malaar aches over is healed, and the soul that has met the One is never parted from it again.
Hukumnama
Subject: Singing the One's praises keeps you alive Preview: free while alive, the sweetest nectar, a fog of busywork, an easy balance, never parted again.
Today: You can be free right now, while you are alive. Hold the Guru's teaching close. Stay awake to the One, day and night, and let your pride go. Sing the One's praises, and you come alive. The Word tastes sweeter than anything. Cling only to stuff and show, and a fog settles in. Whole days vanish in busywork, round and round. Tune your heart to the Naam, and greed loosens its grip. Whatever you do, you do with easy balance, and life tastes sweet. Few people see this, and seeing it is a gift. Meet the One, and you are never apart again.
Singing the One's praises keeps you alive, and the Word is the sweetest taste.
For today: Sing or hum one line of praise today, and notice how sweet it tastes.